Caspar Max Brosius

Caspar Max Brosius (* June 12, 1825 in Steinfurt, North Rhine-Westphalia, † February 17th 1910 in Bendorf ) were a German physician and psychiatrist.

Life

Caspar Maximilian Brosius was the son of district physician in Burg Steinfurt. After attending high school in Münster, he studied medicine in Greifswald and Bonn, received his doctorate in 1848 hebetudine De animi (About the dullness of the soul) and then practiced first in Burg Steinfurt. In 1855 he became assistant physician, founded by Adolph Albrecht Erlenmeyer at 1848 " asylum for brain and nervous sick " in Bendorf near Koblenz. On July 1, 1857 Brosius opened there even a mental institution, he two boarding houses for nerves sick women advanced in 1863 and 1878.

" In the treatment of his patients, he came from the philanthropic, but then place yet little favor idea, according to equate the external conditions of the patient as possible to those of healthy individuals, their habits. " - Thus characterized Peretti the work of Brosius, he personally knew. Even the terminally ill live with healthy inhabitants of the houses including the Brosius family, as far as anything was possible, together. His motto: " kitchen and basement are far more important than the pharmacy in the institution. " On the naturalist Assembly 1865 in Hanover presented Brosius this " family system " in a lecture before, after he had as early as 1858 before the psychiatric section of the naturalist - meeting in Karlsruhe was used for the "no -restraint " system. With the translation of John Conolly " Treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints " (1856, German 1859) he exercised great influence on the humanization of psychiatry in Germany.

Since the founding of the magazine " The madman friend " in 1859 by Frederick Koster Brosius worked at the magazine as an editor with, since 1878 as sole editor. In 1883, he reported there over 25 years working in his hospital in Bendorf, of which he gave in 1897. After several unsuccessful attempts, succeeded him in 1900 in the Prussian Rhine province, the establishment of an auxiliary association for the mentally ill.

Works

• John Connolly: The treatment of the insane without mechanical constraint. German communicated by Dr. C. M. Brosius. Lahr, 1860 ( digitized )
• The madman friend. - Anniversary publication of the 25th anniversary of the Brosiusschen sanatoriums 1883